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Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic

Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic

Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic, has reason to be nervous. That’s partly because of his personality—detailed in “My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace…
September 11, 2014
Ben Smith: The Complete Transcript

Ben Smith: The Complete Transcript

When Ben Smith joined BuzzFeed as editor in chief in 2012, the site was better known for cute cat videos and fun lists than for serious journalism. Over the past…
July 17, 2014
Form Follows Function

Form Follows Function

Form follows function. Just what that axiom means, applied to journalism, was revealed to me by a man named Carl Newton, city editor of The Atlanta Journal when I arrived…
July 15, 2014
Rewriting J-School

Rewriting J-School

How journalism schools are trying to connect classrooms to newsrooms
June 16, 2014
Hurricane Katrina, Civil Rights, and Ben Franklin’s Sister, Jane

Hurricane Katrina, Civil Rights, and Ben Franklin’s Sister, Jane

On May 13, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project awards were presented to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, and Adrienne Berard, a 2013 graduate of…
June 3, 2014
Master of the Craft

Master of the Craft

At the Nieman Foundation’s 75th anniversary reunion, Robert A. Caro discussed the art of political biography with fellow Nieman Anne Hull
February 19, 2014
Command and Control

Command and Control

The state of journalism in China, 25 years after Tiananmen
February 18, 2014
“Access Is Overrated”: The Extended Transcript

“Access Is Overrated”: The Extended Transcript

Before joining The New Yorker in 1995, Jane Mayer spent 12 years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she was the paper’s first female White House correspondent.…
February 4, 2014

Stories To Live By

Soon after starting high school in Tg. Mures, the small city in Romania’s Transylvania region where I grew up, I began skipping classes.What we want is to give voice to…
January 29, 2014
Mother of Invention

Mother of Invention

As she lay dying, the widow of a Milwaukee newspaper editor made a gift that has now invigorated journalism for 75 years. Agnes Wahl Nieman, a well-educated woman with a…
November 5, 2013